Head of a Bearded Man Wearing a Turban (recto); Latin script (verso)

A bearded man in a large striped turban turns his head to the viewer, his face lit by white highlights on curling hair and beard. Brush and brown ink on gray prepared paper gives the head strong modeling against a dark ground.

Look closer: Faint darker shading on the lower-right edge of the robe and the paper's uneven gray tone.

Artist

Master of the Death of Absalom (?)

Date

ca. 1510

Medium

Brush and black brown ink heightened with white gouache on slate gray prepared paper.

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2831 × 3861 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975